Teams we support
Whether you're making the strategic call, building the technical case, or getting the project consented — here's what Optioneer does for you specifically.
Make capital decisions on defensible, spatial evidence.
The challenge for strategy and investment teams isn’t just cost—it’s deliverability. Schemes that are technically sound on paper often fall apart when they meet the friction of reality. Optioneer connects system-level thinking to spatial feasibility from the start.
Global scale assessment
A major European TSO evaluated over 10,000 km of strategic hydrogen corridors across multiple future scenarios—a country-scale assessment completed within a realistic programme window.
Accelerated planning
A British utility leveraged early-stage Optioneer analysis to bring network plans forward by up to three years.
From strategic corridor to preferred alignment — faster, more rigorous.
Engineers and GIS teams spend a disproportionate amount of time on manual data assembly, iteration and re-running analysis every time a constraint changes. Optioneer automates the baseline so your team can focus on the calls that actually require engineering judgement.
93% faster
In an official Energy Networks Association study, National Gas observed a 93% reduction in routing time using Optioneer. With the Optioneer software-generated results closely matching expert-designed routes.
Voltage upgrade viability
A California-based utility uses Optioneer to evaluate the viability of following existing RoWs while upgrading assets from 138kV to 220kV, ensuring any assets avoid constraints that have arisen post-completion of the existing line.
Identify, quantify, and avoid environmental risk — in early stage planning.
Environmental planners and permitting leads face a familiar problem: the option is effectively fixed before they're fully engaged. But Optioneer brings environmental analysis to the option origination process. So risks are not just mitigated, but avoided entirely.
Over £10 million in cost savings
By identifying forestry and ecological constraints at the option stage—before ground investigations or surveys—customers have selected alternative alignments that avoided tens of millions of pounds in mitigation costs.
Successfully consented projects
There are thousands of kilometres of infrastructure in construction, or already in operation, which used Optioneer at the early stages of development. A solid data-driven foundation supports later detailed studies and challenges, accelerating the overall development timeline.
Maximise bid wins and minimise development risk.
Commercial teams work at the front end of the project lifecycle — where information is limited, timelines are compressed, and the cost of a bad decision is a wasted development budget or a lost bid. Optioneer compresses the time from opportunity to credible, costed position.
The "12,000 mile" sprint
During a competitive tender window, one customer evaluated over 12,000 miles of transmission. This was completed by a team of just three people in a matter of weeks—a scale of analysis previously impossible without Optioneer.
Long-term strategy
Three British gas utilities used Optioneer to model repurposing vs. new-build scenarios across their existing networks. This analysis didn't just inform a project; it defined their long-term network strategy and capital programme.
Build a defensible, transparent record that holds up to scrutiny.
Stakeholder teams are increasingly asked to defend not just the development, but the process that produced it. Objections to infrastructure projects now routinely target the adequacy of the alternatives assessment — not just the outcome. Optioneer provides the visual materials and evidence needed to turn challenges into consensus.
Defense against challenges
A Scottish developer used Optioneer to demonstrate a rigorous and defensible options process after receiving a community-led legal challenge on alternative routes — converting the challenge into an auditable record.
18 months of visual clarity
For one major infrastructure project, an Optioneer-generated flyover served as the primary public-facing visualisation on their project website for over 18 months, providing a consistent and clear reference point for the community.
One platform for the whole programme — from initiation to consent.
Delivery teams are coordinators as much as technical leads. The job is keeping multidisciplinary workstreams aligned, evidence trails intact, and external parties productive — without building those things from scratch on every project.
200+ experts (internal and external) collaborating across three interfacing projects
Projects develop over years using Optioneer, with role-based access granted to internal and external SMEs. This level of collaboration helps with interface management, retention of project knowledge and onboarding of 3rd parties, e.g. consultants.
Sectors
Optioneer is designed for utilities and developers in the energy and water industry. Wether you are improving existing networks or developing new, Optioneer is equipped for overhead, underground and subsea transmission, hydrogen and CO2 pipelines.
Empower your team today.
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Client success stories
We’ve had the pleasure of working with global leaders in the utilities industry, find out how they achieved results with Optioneer.
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